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Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution - Age, Position, Character, Destiny, Personality, and Ambition (Paperback)
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Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution - Age, Position, Character, Destiny, Personality, and Ambition (Paperback)
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Perhaps the foremost social analyst and journalist on Cuban
affairs, Carlos Alberto Montaner has written a definitive study of
the Cuban regime from the vantage point of the Cuban dictator. This
is not simply a history of Cuban communism but rather a personal
history of its leader, Fidel Castro. Montaner's extraordinary
knowledge of the country and its politics prevents the work from
becoming a psychiatric examination from afar. Indeed, what personal
irrationalities exist are seen as built into the fabric of the
regime itself, and not simply as a personality aberration. Fidel
Castro and the Cuban Revolution is not an apologia for past United
States involvement in Cuban affairs. The author is severe in his
judgments of such participation. Nor is he sparing in his sense of
the betrayal of the original purposes of the Revolution of 1959
manifested in the character and policies of Fidel Castro. As the
work progresses from a study of the victims to a study of the
beneficiaries of the Cuban Revolution, it leaves the reader with a
deep sense of the tragedy of a revolution betrayed, but not one
that could have easily been avoided. Montaner is an "exile" like
the great Alexander Herzen before him. His decision to live in
Europe was made by choice, not of necessity. He sees his role as
critical analyst, not as restoring the status quo ante. A most
valuable aspect of this book is its intimate reevaluation of
Fulgencio Batista. Whatever the reader's judgment of Montaner's
work, no one can read it and be dismissive of the effort. It is a
work of intimacy even through written in exile--and hence must be
viewed as an important effort to understand the character of the
man and regime who have changed the course of Cuban history in our
times.
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